The new trailer for the final season of 'Game of Thrones,' and the great war between the armies of the living and the dead, evokes both the actual European Middle Ages and the fantastic one of JRR Tolkien. Those models might help us see what's to come.
, the return of the White Walkers. Even the gods might be involved, as the trailer shows Jon returning to the red-leaved Weirwood Tree and Beric's flaming sword, given him by the Lord of Light.." There too different armies amassed and were about to fight one another, ignoring a very real threat to them all. In Tolkien, it all worked out in the end, but not without losses, not without sacrifice in the face of the very real threat posed by the forces of evil.
In both cases, the medieval retellings of the apocalyptic drama and in Tolkien's fantasy version, the good guys ultimately win. In , that's not so clear. The opening scene of the trailer has Arya fleeing in terror, seemingly from the Night King, who's inside Winterfell's walls.
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